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Examination and Concert - Finest and Most Substantial

31 MAY 1885. Austin Daily Statesman.

OVER THE CITY.

At night, June 5th, the pupils of the Blind Institute will give a grand free concert at Turner’s Hall. A very fine programme for the evening, consisting of dialogues, good music, recitations, “A Darkey’s Opinion of Woman’s Rights,” and grand calisthenics drill. The people are cordially invited to the examination and concert.

The stone bridge across Waller Creek on Mesquite street, recently constructed for the city by Mr. Chas. Johnson, the well known builder and contractor, is one of the finest and most substantial pieces of masonry in Austin. It is built to stand, and will stand for all time. In the construction of this bridge Mr. Johnson used stone from his quarry on the Colorado, one of the best in Austin. Mr. Johnson is perfectly reliable and always guarantees his work. He manufactures a hydraulic cement at his quarry, which is said to be equal to the best imported.

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Postponed - Not Fit To Be At Large - Elocutionary Powers - Three Feeble Drunks - Fire Alarm - For Want of Help to Build

16 NOV 1883. Austin Daily Statesman.

CITY MATTERS IN BRIEF.

The trial of Mackinson, the highwayman, was postponed until the 22nd, on account of witnesses not being present.

In the sodomy case against Francis Lowery the jury gave the defendant seven years in the penitentiary. Serves him right. A man who is low enough to be guilty of such a crime is not fit to be at large in a respectable society.

The wonderful child lecture, Jenny Scott Wilson, will display her elocutionary powers at the Live Oak school house tonight. All should go and hear the little child, and certainly no one will regret it. No charge for admission.

The mayors court seems to have lost its grip. The time when are patriots came bravely forward and paid liberally to the building of the magnificent streets of this thriving capital, but that time seems to be among the things that were. Only three cases were before his honor yesterday -- three feeble drunks. Jack Denton was discharged; Pat Sullivan paid a fine, or rather is boarding it out, and an unknown Mexican who knows English grog enough to get drunk, but not the English language enough to tell his name, paid $5 as Pat is paying it out.

Yesterday morning, as the rain was falling in torrents, the fire bell sounded an alarm and the firemen started through the mud and rain to extinguish the conflagration. They had hardly started before they were hurried forward by the news that blind asylum was in flames. The wind was supplied to the running steeds, and the mud flew from the spinning wheels of the fire engines like a sleet storm before a northern gale. This furious speed soon brought the firemen to the asylum for the blind, and what a site met their gaze --  the soot in one of the chimneys had caught fire, and one of the inmates had put it out with a pinch of salt in the stove whence it started.

One thing generally needed in this city is a supply of mechanics, particularly carpenters and masons. There has been a general complaint all summer that parties desiring to build could not get work done for want of help, and those here are not able to do the work to be done. Austin is growing so fast at present that the mechanics now here in vain try to meet the demand for labor. Nearly every building of importance started the summer has dragged along for want of help to build it within the time it ought to have been done, and worse than that, several large structures have been temporarily abandoned, because labor could not be obtained without paying the most extravagant prices for it. What Austin needs more than anything else is a large number of mechanics. In some places there is an oversupply of these men, and if they would come to Austin they would find it greatly to the revenge to do so.

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Cattle and Hogs Depredating - Gun Club - The Danger of Being Run Over - Steam Heating - Long Enought to Break Down Most Children - German Colonization - Declared Herself Hen of the Walk

9 OCT 1883. Austin Daily Statesman.

CITY MATTERS IN BRIEF.

Cattle and hogs are depredating upon trees and shubbery in the Fifth ward.  Come and take them in Mr. Pondmaster.

The Austin gun club will have a shooting match this afternoon at 2 o'clock.  Everybody is invited to go to their grounds, near the old barracks, and see the shooting.

Compliant is made of fast driving on the avenue every evening about dusk.  Persons, in crossing the street, subject themselves to danger of being run over by the careless driving, and the police should immediately put a stop to the practice.

The contractor who took the work of heating the blind asylum by steam, having failed to do the work, the securities on his bond, Messrs. Gardner Ruggles and Duval Beal, have made arrangements with another party to have the work done at once, under the terms of the contract.  The work will consequently be delayed, but will be completed in December.

There is complaint that one of two of the schools keep the children confined too long.  In one of the schools it is seven and half hours from the time it opens in the morning until it closes in the evening.  Allowing one hour for going and coming from school, we find that eight and half hours are required for attendance -- a period long enough to break down most children.

Mr Gustave Naeter and family, and three other German families who had but recently arrived on steamer Bremen, left yesterday for the German colony New Baden, Robertson county, to settle there.  The contract of the colonization company with the International railroad company, to settle a certain number of persons on this land, is fully complied with and ceases on the first of November.  Up to this time every settler can get 100 acres at $2.50 per acre in five payments; after this time the land still unsettled will be held at $5 per acre for new comers.

There was a razor cutting affair Sunday night.  Kate Williams, the injured woman, says it occurred thus: I was in the restaurant getting my supper with Emma Hooper, and a woman named Lizzie Gordon came into the restaurant and "declared herself hen of the walk."  When Emma went out Lizzie jumped on her and beat her.  After she succeeded in this she drew a razor and began slashing away on Emma.  The wounds inflicted are said to be of a serious nature.  The woman who done the cutting is somewhere in Wheatville, and Emma is in jail.

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